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Staying at a short-term rental in Berlin for the European Venture Market

Written by Arnaud on the 23. of May 2009  |  No comments

At the beginning of last week the HouseTrip team went to Berlin to participate to the European Venture Market (looking for investors for our second-round).

Of course, for our lodging we stayed in a short-term rental and we could once again verify for ourselves that the value we get is just much better than hotels. For a price the third of a normal hotel room, we got a wonderful 150sqm loft in a Berlin historical building, with 3 bedrooms and all the amenities one could expect in a great home!

loft-living-room

The living room of our Berlin rental

A funny anecodte is that we – obviously – started to speak about HouseTrip with our host and, after hearing us describe the project, he told us that about a month ago he had been interviewed by people wanting to launch a similar project from Switzerland… After a moment of reflection – telling ourselves that there musn’t be that many Swiss entrepreneurs in our industry – we simply noticed that it was us who interviewed him!

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